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Tenuidactylus voraginosus (LEVITON & ANDERSON, 1984)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Southwest Thin-toed gecko 
SynonymCyrtodactylus voraginosus LEVITON & ANDERSON 1984
Cyrtodactylus fedtschenkoi — CLARK et al. 1969: 300
Tenuidactylus longipes voraginosus — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1986: 157
Tenuidactylus voraginosus — KHAN & TASNIM 1990
Tenuidactylus voraginosus — KLUGE 1991: 12
Tenuidactylus longipes voraginosus — SZCZERBAK & GOLUBEV 1996
Cyrtopodion (Tenuidactylus) longipes voraginosus — RÖSLER 2000: 74
Cyrtopodion voraginosum — FROST 2007 (pers. comm.)
Indogekko longipes voraginosus — KHAN 2008
Tenuidactylus voraginosus — BAUER et al. 2013 
DistributionAfghanistan (Girishk region)

Type locality: 55 km west of Girishk, Aghanistan.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: CAS 120322, adult female; paraypes: FMNH, CAS 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Three to 5 subpostfemoral tubercles; dorsal tubercles almost always separated from one another by 2 or more small juxtaposed scales or granules, 26-29 tubercles in a paravertebral row extending from immediately behind head to level of vent; 37-40 abdominal scales across middle of belly; a total of 35-46 femoral and preanal pores (seen as slight depressions in the scales in females), the series separated in midline by one or two scales lacking pores or depressions; 15 to 19 interorbital scales (Leviton & Anderson 1984).


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CommentListed as a synonym of Tenuidactylus longipes by KLUGE 1993.

Sympatry: Bunopus tuberculatus,Teratoscincus scincus, T. bedriagi, and T. microlepis, Trapelus agilis, Eremias acutirostris, E. lineolata, Ophiomorus tridactylus, and Eryx t. tataricus. 
References
  • BAUER, AARON M.; RAFAQAT MASROOR, JAMES TITUS-MCQUILLAN, MATTHEW P. HEINICKE,, JUAN D. DAZA & TODD R. JACKMAN 2013. A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications. Zootaxa 3599 (4): 301–324 - get paper here
  • Khan, Muhamad Sharif. 2008. Biology and distribution of geckos of genus Indogekko Khan, 2003 (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 15 (2):87-92 - get paper here
  • Leviton A E; Anderson S C 1984. Description of a new species of Cyrtodactylus from Afghanistan with remarks on the status of Gymnodactylus longipes and Cyrtodactylus fedtschenkoi. Journal of Herpetology 18 (3): 270-276 - get paper here
  • Nazarov, R. A.; N. A. Poyarkov 2013. A TAXONOMIC REVISION OF THE GENUS TENUIDACTYLUS SZCZERBAK ET GOLUBEV 1984 (REPTILIA, SQUAMATA, GEKKONIDAE) WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM CENTRAL ASIA. [in Russian]. ЗООЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ 92 (11): 1312–1332 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Shcherbak, N. N. [= Szczerbak], and M. L. Golubev 1996. Gecko fauna of the USSR and contiguous regions. SSAR [Russian original published in 1986]. [book review in Salamandra 36 (2): 138]
 
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